Ezar Elasra

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Ezar Elasra was a male Barabel who was a Jedi Master during the waning years of the Galactic Republic.

[edit] Biography

During the Clone Wars, Elasra commanded a small, but successful battlegroup that operated in the Mid Rim, using the Venator-class Star Destroyer Solidarity as his flagship.

When the Jedi Council tasked Elasra with retaking the planet Tirahnn from the Confederacy of Independent Systems, he developed a plan to capture the world, by having a strike team activate a planetary ion cannon and then using it against the orbiting CIS fleet. He summoned a group of Republic agents to the Solidarity and on their arrival, tasked them with reactivating the cannon. The agents were successful in activating the cannon and when it began opening fire on the Separatist fleet, Elasra brought his battlegroup out of hyperspace near the planet, beginning the Battle of Tirahnn.

About thity minutes into the battle, Elasra contacted the Republic agents via a hologram and gave them a new assignment. He asked them to place some homing beacons on a group of CIS Ground Armored Tanks that were the threatening Republic forces and he also said that he would sent a group of clone troopers to take custody of the CIS Commander Zolghast, whom the agents had captured. Shortly afterwards, Elasra got into his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and led a squadron of V-19 Torrent starfighters in the space battle. However, in his absence, the Clawdite CIS spy Braxus Lyn disguised herself as Elasra and freed Zolghast from Republic custody. This caused a clone commander to believe that Elasra had defected to the Separatists, so the Republic agents were sent to recapture Zolghast and stop the false Elasra.

The Republic forces were eventually victorious and captured the planet; and Elasra commended the Republic agents for their actions during the battle.

[edit] Sources

• Galaxy at War